The technology is primed to become faster, more versatile, and thankfully cheaper. Technologies enabled by quantum science will help researchers better understand the natural world and harness quantum phenomena to benefit society. They will transform health care, transportation, and communications, and enhance resilience to cyber threats and climate catastrophes. For example, quantum magnetic field sensors…
Read more2023 could be the year of public cloud repatriation
With cloud costs and complexity higher than expected, many enterprises are making a U-turn and putting applications and data back in traditional systems Here’s a topic we don’t discuss as much as we should: public cloud repatriation. Many regard repatriating data and applications back to enterprise data centers from a public cloud provider as an admission…
Read moreWhat is quantum computing and how will quantum computers change the world?
Depending on who you ask, some say that quantum computers could either break the Internet, rendering pretty much every data security protocol obsolete, or allow us to compute our way out of the climate crisis. These hyper-powerful devices, an emerging technology that exploits the properties of quantum mechanics, are much buzzed about. Only last month,…
Read moreTop edge computing platforms in 2022
Edge computing helps reduce latency of data processing. See which edge computing platform is right for your business. As modern technology continues to advance in ways that satisfy the human desire for instant gratification, consumers are placing more emphasis on speed as a key feature when choosing their product vendors. Whether you choose to…
Read moreYour Android smartphone could be your biggest Word or PowerPoint helper
Small quality-of-life feature could change the way you use Microsoft 365 Microsoft has announced a new, more convenient way to pull images from Android devices, such as smartphones, into documents and spreadsheets made with the web versions of Word and Powerpoint found in Microsoft 365. In a post on the Office Insiders blog, the company revealed that it…
Read moreWordPress updates its website builder for the third time this year
Open source CMS WordPress.org has released WordPress 6.1 “Misha” in a bid to expand the block editing experience introduced earlier this year in WordPress 5.9 and WordPress 6.0. Named after the Soviet-Norwegian jazz pianist Mikhail “Misha” Alperin, WordPress 6.1 includes additional updates to its website builder, offering a new default block theme that features ten style variations designed by WordPress community…
Read moreMeta Quest Pro VR headset may be super productive
Meta Quest Pro VR headset may, with Microsoft's help, be super productive Several of Microsoft's work and productivity tools are coming to the metaverse Microsoft is bringing some of its most popular remote working software to the metaverse, announcing during the recent Meta Connect 2022 event that it is entering a new productivity-focused VR and AR partnership.…
Read moreCourt win for man fired for not keeping webcam on
Court win for man fired for not keeping webcam on A telemarketer who was fired after refusing to keep his webcam on while working had his rights breached, a Dutch court has ruled. The employee of US-based IT company Chetu was awarded approximately 75,000 euro (£65,700) by the court. In August, the man, in the…
Read moreMicrosoft Teams suggested replies to be more broadly available
Microsoft has several new features lined up for release this year for Teams users. To be able to play casual games, new cameo experiences, and much more are coming to Microsoft's hybrid collaboration tool. Another noteworthy change will come to Teams in the next few months: a broader deployment of suggested replies, something Outlook users have had for…
Read moreMicrosoft retires Internet Explorer after 27 years
It announced the plan last year, making Internet Explorer 11 its final version. Internet Explorer debuted on Windows desktop computers in 1995 and by 2004, had cornered 95% of the market. But now, Google Chrome, Apple's Safari and Mozilla Firefox are dominant. Users wanting to stick with Microsoft are being directed to Microsoft Edge, launched…
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